Since the dawn of time, people have been trying to figure out if their spouses are worthy of their love or if they belong on the curb. So, how did they figure this out? With quizzes and tests, naturally!

Someecards dug up the Marital Rating Scale by George W. Crane, Ph.D and M.D. of Northwestern University from 1939, which gets passed around on the Internet from time to time...probably because it's gold. It's like an extreme version of a Buzzfeed quiz — it's literally a rating scale for your partner. Yes, you read that correctly: You rate your spouse, like a meat dish in a subpar cook-off. Of course, no decade is safe from truly awful marriage advice, but some of the advice this quiz implies is really special.

On the rating scale, men can earn points for good behavior — such as being polite and mannerly even when alone with their wife, helping out with dishes and the kids, and being a good conversationalist. And they get bonus points for some categories, like remembering birthdays and having a date night once a week (he gets 5 points per date!).

Men lose points for bringing randos to the dinner table without telling their wives, comparing her, burping without apologizing, leaving drawers open, reading the newspaper at the table, flirting with other women while he's with his wife (but not when he's not with her?), rehashing his years as a single guy, and snoring, amongst other things.

Some of these, though, seem pretty obvious— like being courteous to his wife's friends and knowing how to hold a conversation. Others are clear reminders that 1939 was a very, very long time ago — like how he gets points for reading books and newspapers aloud to his wife — suggesting that she can't read for herself.

Oh...and then there's the wives' rating scale, in which men can tally up points to see whether their wives are "prizeworthy" or not. It's probably one of the most backwards things you'll ever read, and here are some of the things that got this author a low score: slow in coming to bed, wearing soiled or ragged dresses and aprons (or, sweatpants with holes), failing to sew buttons on or darn socks regularly, wearing red nail polish, being late from time to time, having a crooked seams in their tights, putting their cold feet on their husband at night to warm them.